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VC738   Claude Charles Castleton

BORN   12 April 1893

DIED   29 July 1916   AGE   23

VC Won   28-29 July 1916   AGE   23

Place VC Won   Pozieres, Somme, France

War/Campaign   First World War 1916

Name   Claude Charles Castleton   No.   1352   POSTHUMOUS

VC Issue No.   738   Awards   VC   

Regiment   5th Machine Gun Corps, AIF

Later   

Now   

Rank VC Won   Sergeant

Rank End Of Career   Sergeant

Place Of Birth   Morton Road, Kirkley, Lowesoft, Suffolk, England

Place Of Death   Pozieres, Somme, France

Buried/Location Ashes   Pozieres British Military Cemetery, Ovillers-la-Boisselle, 3 miles north-east of Albert, Somme, France

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone (CWGC)   Plot/Grave no.   Plot 4, Row L, Grave 43

Gazetted   26 September 1916

VC Presented   29 November 1916 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England to his father, Thomas Charles

Memorials

P  Headstone, Pozieres British Military Cemetery, Ovillers-la-Boisselle, 3 miles north-east of Albert, Somme, France

P  Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia

Memorial Plaque, St Nicholas RC Church, Pakefield, Lowesoft, Suffolk

P  Named On War Memorial,  St Margaret's Parish Church,  Lowesoft, Suffolk

Memorial & Portrait At Lowesoft Town Hall, Suffolk

P  Green Plaque, Wilson Road, Lowesoft, Suffolk

P  Castleton Close, Lowesoft, Suffolk

P  Castleton Avenue, Lowesoft, Suffolk

Castleton Crescent, Canberra, A.C.T. Australia

P  Named on Water Tower, Pozieres, Somme, France

By The Way…

When he emigrated to Australia he did a bit of Gold Prospecting

VC Held By

Australian War Memorial, Hall of Valour, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia

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Thank you to Anthony Staunton

Thank you to Tony Goddard for the photos of the Water Tower at Pozieres